Quote Guessing Game using Web Scraping in Python

Prerequisite: BeautifulSoup Installation 

In this article, we will scrape a quote and details of the author from this site using python framework called BeautifulSoup and develop a guessing game using different data structures and algorithm.

The user will be given 4 chances to guess the author of a famous quote, In every chance the user will be provided with a hint which can be the author's birth date, first name's first letter, second name's first letter, etc. On successfully guessing the author, a message is printed and if the user fails to guess the answer even after all the 4 chances then again a message is printed along with the answer.

Approach

• Import module
  • requests help us grab the page, when the response is received it is stored in the form of a string
  • bs4 library is used to create beasutifulSoup object.
  • csv library helps reading and writing CSV files using python
  • sleep function from time module helps add delay in the execution of the program.
  • choice function from random module returns a random element.
• Create a list to store values scraped
• Scrape the details from this link:
• Extract data
• Game logic
  • Return random items from the dictionary created
  • Set number of guesses
  • Write message for success and failure
  • Keep giving hints until either number of chances reach zero or the user gets it right

Program:

Output:

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Time Complexity: 
The time complexity of this code is O(N) because the while loop is iterating over quotes list N times.

Space Complexity:
The space complexity of this code is O(N) because the all_quotes list is storing N number of elements.